*PERSONALITY THEORY

*SELF-ACTUALIZATION
THEORY

*ISOLATION THEORY

PREPARED BY:
RHONEL F. JOCUTAN
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 Karen Horney, a
leading German
psychoanalyst, was born
16th of September 1885.
She graduated from
University of Berlin in
1913 with a degree in
medicine. In 1909 she
married Oskar Horney and
had three daughters. In
1920, she started teaching
KAREN at the Institute of
HORNEY Psychoanalysis in Berlin.
 PERSONALITY THEORY
 Karen Horney’s Personality Theory was
created in 1942. Horney studied the work of
Freud but always disagree with his view of
women.
 Horney’s theory states how people react in
different situations. When they are acting
against people they come across as bossy,
demanding, selfish, and cruel

KAREN
HORNEY
HORNEY VS. FREUD
3 BROAD CATEGORIES OF NEUROTIC
NEEDS

1. Needs that move you towards

others.
2. Needs that move you away
from others.
3. Needs that move you against
others
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Abraham Maslow

Abraham Harold
Maslow was an American
psychologist who was
best known for creating
Maslow’s hierarchy of
needs, a theory of
psychological health
predicated on fulfilling
innate human needs in
priority, culminating in ABRAHAM
self-actualization. MASLOW
 SELF - ACTUALIZATION THEORY

Maslow’s quote refers to self-

actualization, which is the highest level
or stage in his model of human
motivation: the ‘Hierarchy of Needs’.
According to the hierarchy of needs, self
actualization represents the highest-
order motivations, which drive us to
realize our true potential and achieve
our ideal self.
HIERARCHY OF NEEDS
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 ERICH FROMM (1900 - 1980)

• German - born American

psychoanalyst and social philosopher
who explored the interaction between
psychology and society.
• By applying psychoanalytic principles
to the remedy of cultural ills, Fromm
believed, mankind could develop a
psychologically balanced “sane
society.”
ISOLATION THEORY

According to this theory, man has

been isolated from nature and
other men and this has given rise to
five basic needs which if not
satisfied would result in frustration
and problems.
 FIVE HUMAN BASIC NEEDS
1. RELATEDNESS
-man has lost his nearness to nature and so he has to
relate himself to others based on love and affection.

2. TRANSCENDENCE
-man has to submerge his animal nature of greed so that
he becomes cooperative and productive.

3. ROOTEDNESS
-man has to satisfy his need for belongingness to a group
by brotherly love and affection and so he associates himself
with other people.
4. IDENTITY
-man needs to feel that he is different from
others and so he tries hard to do or create
something that would give an identity to him.

5. FRAME OF ORIENTATION
-man needs an environment that is stable and
with consistent events to be able to understand it.